Fall 2024 Festivals

Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.

Throughout the fall festival season, we'll be publishing a wide array of interviews, dispatches, and ballots from Venice, Toronto, and New York. Watch this space!

“Rage Against the Dying of the Light” by Leonardo Goi

^{From Cloud to Baby Invasion, some of the festival’s early standouts felt true to our moment of anxious doomscrolling and paranoia.}

“Empathy Machines” by Leonardo Goi

^{Some of the festival’s best—Familiar Touch, The Room Next Door, April, The Brutalist—share a belief in cinema’s power to mesmerize.}

“Hunt or Be Hunted” by Chloe Lizotte

^{Saturday Night and The Apprentice fade into the forgettable “landmarks” on Festival Street, but Friendship dares to be weird.}

“For an Ad Hoc Cinema: TIFF Wavelengths 2024” by Michael Sicinski

^{The program remains a lodestar of auteurist cinema even as it is asked to make do with less.}

“The Cinema Is a House” by Daniel Kasman

^{A film builds a space in which the audience can live.}